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Your comment was very inspiring. At the risk of saying too much, I find myself in a similar situation, where the culture of my workplace doesn't seem to jive with productivity or the way I work. I think another danger of a workplace is the idea that appearance is more important that quality of character.

Anyone can put on a suit and tie, but the ability and desire to fix problems isn't inherent in everyone. I've been at government contracts where they overvalue the employees who dress well and don't value those that look them straight in the eye, tell the truth and deliver in a timely manner.
Running? Really?

In my experience, my mind is quite calm when doing hard physical work such as running. So if I wanted to practice resisting distracting thoughts, I would have to begin with almost anything besides physical exercise.
Startup = Idea
Interestingly, Postgresql refuses to support query plan hints, a very popular hack on the Oracle world, because they insist if you can write a better query plan than the planner, you should teach the planner how to do it instead.
Elegance in the long term over pragmatism of the moment.
FYI: It has its own home page: http://recursiveuniver.se
That is an amazing study! Thanks for bringing it up!
Discussions of gender equality: the only subject on Hacker News or Reddit where someone will, with a straight face, try to refute an empirical study with anecdotal evidence.
No worries at all. It is one thing for someone to be a true believer however misled, but I am convinced from looking into this that Rath knows damn well what he is doing and is playing the piper for something far worse than mere greed. The trouble is, he is also damn good at it and manages to feed many folk exactly what they want to hear.

Everyone loves to be in on 'how the world really works' TM.

And as far as I can tell, the military-entertainment-pharma-tourism-complex, or whatever it is this week, is hardly doing itself many favours in not making people in the poorer bits of the world utterly paranoid and suspect everything of being some massive trick. I mean, people there have to put up with repeated nestle marketing campaigns to discourage breastfeeding when there's fuck-all clean water[1]. At least here in the UK they just try to addict us to sugar and drugs instead.

And that's not in some old colonial past, that kind of shit happens today. I mean, when you have stuff like the CIA faking an immunisation program in Pakistan to sample for DNA[2] while looking for Ernst Stavro Blofeld or whatever, then no wonder some people believe in Mattias Rath. And their fear makes him a lot of money.

[1] still going on in 2011 - http://www.irinnews.org/Report/93040/LAOS-NGOs-flay-Nestl%C3...

[2] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/pakistan-polio-fak...

[edit] Oh, and I'd completely agree that Mbeki & Msimang do appear to be completely and utterly cynical power-crazy bastards.
not if the amount of training data required to learn by example is exponential or even combinatorial. we might not even be in the same ballpark. all data ever recorded on digital media might not be enough to learn even a simple intelligence without assumptions about structure.

a kind of analogous problem is: can you learn how to build a living thing purely from digitally recorded DNA samples, if you don't have access to the internal structure of any living thing? How many dna samples would you need?
As someone who was a non-appointed CDO at a company (only because no one else had the backbone to say no) my performance reviews were fine. However, it's a thankless job because it needs to be done and the higher-ups expect someone to do it.

You just better have thick skin if you take on this role. People don't like having their projects questioned and even if you understand the project you just don't understand.
How much slower are ssds than RAM these days.....I feel like the benefits of using your RAM for something like this are very similar to the benefits an SSD brings except further accentuated.
I was thinking of http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/10/29/2212226/wolframs-... ; looking again it seems that's a different proof, apologies.
> for decades they made all their publications conform to style guides ...

Of course I know that, in fact my AP Style Guide is within arm's reach, and I regularly use Strunk & White as a source for a particular style position, but (apart from "make every word count") these references don't apply to online text, the present topic. Online style isn't print style -- the former isn't formalized to the degree that print style is.

I will know when there's a formal online style, widely accepted, because the first principle will be "no more gray text on a gray background!" I won't hold my breath.
>> because it's cute, nicely produced, vaguely edgy but not threatening to anyone, and it got lucky.

Are we talking about iOS games now?
So, _hypothetically_, what if you don't use a third party email provider? That is, all your mail is delievred directly to you and is stored on your local machines/devices.

Does that give you more privacy protection than keeping messages stored with some third party in the cloud? Or does it give you less protection?
In the mean team, his maybe wrong idea built the computers that people are using to build their maybe right idea, and the reverse didn't happen.
Supercomputer on the moon
Node.js module for Foursquare Venues
1.) Screenreaders have different modes of operation for different aspects of web content. For dealing with Forms they have Forms mode, in which only form elements are announced. A link isn't a form element, so they wont see the submit button.

2.) Screenreader users have a shortcut key to submit the form - typically when under-qualified web developers create forms without submit buttons. This fires the form submit event, which without a JavaScript preventDefault will get the form contents sent to the URL mentioned in the action attribute on the form. So the screen reader user's comment is treated as spam.
Hacking RAM: Fun with In-memory Disks
Basically you are arguing that being able to resist distractions isn't a great value in and of itself, at least compared to some other values. Fine. I think a lot of people would disagree, but it's a legitimate viewpoint.

But you also claim that taking a period of time in a day to train oneself to resist distractions does not lead to a more focused mindset throughout the day. I think most of us who have practiced meditation (and actually put real effort in, rather than reflecting on other thoughts during the practice) would disagree.

At the moment I don't have any actual studies on hand to back that up (I'm on my phone) but I would be very surprised if they don't exist, and even more surprised if there were studies disproving positive effects of meditation.
If those rules don't creep you out, then I don't know what does:
http://www.dhamma.org/en/code.shtml
No talking, no outside contact, no other forms of practice. This is not a healthy environment unless you know very well what to expect and are sure you really, really want this. It sounds very cultish to me, even though I do know somebody who goes on Vipassana retreats regularly and seems to benefit a lot.
Those retreats are for laypersons, including beginners, but the rules are similar to the most intense meditation periods of monastic buddhist life.
Compare that to western zen: There's a small zen temple in my town that will not allow people on 3 day retreats unless they have meditated for a while and know what to expect.
I don't know about your screen - but mine has 20+ bookmarks, 10+ open tabs, and (currently) about six different applications visible on my screen. 5 seconds ago I was on a Tab looking at the Presidential Debates before I came over to HN - 5 seconds from now I"ll be on OmniFocus, which is visible 2" to the right of the browser screen.

I read the web on my laptop, differently than I consume content iPad. When I read "The Magazine" it launched the App, and it took over 100% of my iPad experience, and I spent the next 20 minutes reading through the four (excellent) articles, completely free of distraction.

I'm willing to pay $2 for 8, carefully curated, selected, edited, and written articles from Marco Arment, presented to me on my iPad.

Those 4 articles, on Life/Love/Technology, on Volatiles vs Stables, and the impact on how to manage engineering companies, on the concept of "Voice" and the linkBlob/Fireball format, and the schism in Geeks who Love Sports, and those who don't and really, what is the central essence of being a Geek - are timeless, and I'm confident I'll re-read in months to come.

Finally - I love the idea of finding an outlet to sponsor those who contribute so much of the great content that I consume, in this structured way. I hope "The Magazine" is very successful, and provides an income for those who write such great material.
You can't just discard observation-based hypothesis generation as irrelevant. It is a key part of the process.
Using Capybara webkit and RSpec to test Drupal
Enough with the linkbait pitches. Tell me it's easy, great, I could be interested. Tell me it only takes 10 seconds. that's BS. Look, I just picked up a soldering iron! My new hardware project is underway in only 2 seconds!! - 5 times faster than AndroidKickstartR by simply switching to dedicated hardware!

(cue a slew of blog posts about starting your next _________ project in only 100 millseconds, because that's about how long the human brain takes to form a new thought.)

Seriously, there's such a thing as overselling. Give me less wank and better inline documentation. I like the concept a good deal, but not the way it is presented.
What’s really so bad about bubble sort?
If you are "cats" you are also "breathing". If you are "breathing" you are only "breathing".
You are correct there is no copyright to the game per se - but - don't forget that literary and pictorial expressions associated to the game can be subject to copyright:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html
I hope you have consulted a lawyer regarding this because Taboo is published by Hasbro.
HBR typically has great articles, but this seems horrible.

Their primary reason for open-sourcing was quality? I am not arguing that open-sourcing can help improve quality of a code base, but if you have quality problems and need it, you should hire better developers.

Quite frankly, for most things that you need for your codebase, even if you open source, you need to do the thing that you need yourself. Fine, there are exceptions - if you work with open source you can likely get a bigger community, potentially build partners, and do more things - but you can't open source expecting the quality to go up.
Not especially; according to MacKay (the original article's reference) they're roughly comparable now:

"To estimate the energy required to move freight by plane, per unit weight of freight, ...then [a 747's] transport cost is 0.45 g, or roughly 1.2 kWh/ton-km. This is just a little bigger than the transport cost of a truck, which is 1 kWh/ton-km....

"...This is a bit more efficient than a typical single-occupant car (12 km per litre). So travelling by plane is more energy-efficient than car if there are only one or two people in the car; and cars are more efficient if there are three or more passengers in the vehicle."

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/cC/page_275...

The original article is pretty bad; the answer to the title's question, "Can we build a more efficient airplane?" is nothing but a link to MacKay. The rest of the article entertaining lead-up fluff.
Pretty cool project, like a functional reinterpretation of dependency injection frameworks. The basic idea behind dependency injection is to make all dependencies for each unit explicit and externally supplied.

DI frameworks then build upon the pattern offering a declarative DSL to declare dependencies and wiring. They also offer a selection of alternatives to build dependent objects (e.g. build a fresh one when needed or supply a global instance for every dependee) and a smidgen of generic functionality via impersonation (e.g. monitoring, logging, timing, transaction acquisition/release).

Interesting that untyped functional programming and macros allow for a lighter expression of the same basic idea.

Also interesting that maps of functions are a fundamental part of the solution. There are definitions of object-orientation that amount to basically records-of-lambdas. I've long thought that there is a lot to gain by using this basic abstraction as it naturally provides seams for testing/observability/auditing/etc.
SaaS products aren't viral
My point is there's a reason for the key's presence in the app, and making it public undermines its purpose.

In the general case (not necessarily for Android), having a Google Maps API key is enough to gain access for anyone's online use of GM. The keys can be gotten easily enough, but each has a traffic cap and a few other constraints. Publishing a key undermines the system.
Wait until you get the SPAM bots targeting your payment forms to validate stolen credit cards...whole different set of challenges. We had 800 payments in one day from this type of attack.
The EU the best experiment in World's history of peace prosperitity and dialogue
What do you guys think about the EU getting the Nobel Peace Price
You just snuck "fundamental" in there. Show me a great anything that is all foundation. Foundation is where you start, not stop.
There are times when you certainly need to put the dishes down and think something through and solve it, but often we should just finish what we started one by one.
> I can’t talk about the way we actually implemented it.

It's all there, right? In obfuscated, minimized, but still-readable JavaScript.
Hey Max, stop by Gigwalk when you're down here, we're over on 4th and Bryant. I'll pop you an email. -Matt
For those who want a more nuanced view, including cited sources and research, head over to http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324
Atomic batches in Cassandra 1.2
For entrepreneurs is definitively more difficult to make it big there, but quality of life is better for the majority.
Bizarre / incredible timing. I just created an interactive D3.js implementation of Conway's Game of Life yesterday: http://boydgreenfield.com/conwayjs/

Would love to hear peoples' thoughts...

(And sorry for the promotion)
Sounds fun and boy would I look silly doing that in the street. I'll call it walk fu.

Thanks for the great idea.
Show HN: Gosper Glider Gun, D3.js Conway's Game of Life
> But you also claim that taking a period of time in a day to train oneself to resist distractions does not lead to a more focused mindset throughout the day. I think most of us who have practiced meditation (and actually put real effort in, rather than reflecting on other thoughts during the practice) would disagree.

Not to put too fine a point on this, because I'm not trying t pick a fight here, but... Homeopaths would disagree when you say that Avagadros Limit rules out any possibility of their cures working save by pure magic.

> At the moment I don't have any actual studies on hand to back that up (I'm on my phone) but I would be very surprised if they don't exist, and even more surprised if there were studies disproving positive effects of meditation.

I'm not arguing that meditation has no positive effects. I'm arguing other things may have similar positive effects and meditation is not unique in this. For example, how is meditation any different from strenuous exercise in forcing your mind to focus?

The article in question suggests that there is science behind the link between meditation and willpower. I don't see that. I also don't see unique properties of meditation in this. Meditation devotees spring up out of the woodwork in response saying, "If you did it you'd understand..." like that's somehow a response to this contention.

By all means, continue to meditate. By all means, feel that it helps make you a better person. By all means, recommend it to your friends. But please do not suggest there is concrete evidence that there is a causal link unless you have _something_ to back that up.
Those bacteria you're ignoring are likely to be the key factor in this whole business, so it seems like a highly incorrect simplification.
This is exactly how I lift weights / exercise, with complete focus and mindfulness.

While working out it is all I think about. I put on headphones with fast, heavy music and focus on the exercise I'm doing at that moment. I don't think about email in my inbox, I don't think about the errands I need to run, I don't talk to the other people around me. I think about my muscles contracting. I think about the extra 5 lbs I just added to the bar. I think about my form. I think about my breathing.

It is meditation as much as sitting on a pillow with legs crossed and eyes closed.
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Git has an annoying feature where commands (like 'reset') will do completely different only vaguely relayed things based on flags or arguments, instead of having different commands.
The subject of meditation isn't all that important, the focus is. Breathing just happens to be a great subject: it's simple and repetitive, it's always with you, it's something you can feel (you're supposed to pay attention to the sensation), etc.

I recently read Mindfulness in Plain English and really enjoyed it. If you're looking for an explanation and how-to (but not necessarily data to back it up), it's a great book.

Edit: Regarding cats specifically, breathing does not demand your attention (the way cats do) and it does not leave on a whim once it has received your attention (the way cats do). It's up to you, and only you, to focus and continue focusing.
Can anyone tell me what the legal repercussions would be for a person breaking into a locked file cabinet and making a copy of personal letter belonging to someone else?

Seems to me they're muddying the waters here with a lack of technical comprehension about electronic data transfer and storage.
This is really just an article on handling different size monitors rather than actual graphic design and layout.

The funny thing is that author's website and twitter get cutoff horribly on my monitor (1024*768 which about 20% of web users use).
Scientists to simulate human brain inside a supercomputer
This is really useful...
Hacker News filter
I would like to see an option filter all Python news with a filter function. 30% of the news is not my taste.
HabitRPG API
IOS 6 Doesn't Like Italian?
By defining "fruit juice" to be something almost nobody ever consumes, then declaring the actual fruit juice people actually consume as being bad, it seems to me that you're agreeing with him while using language that pretends you're not.
Love this quote as well. Diablo 3 especially comes to mind here. Couldn't stand all the the excess scripts & voice acting they stuffed into that game; just dilutes the experience. And I'm not even opposed to story in games - I really liked the story in Deus Ex (original) for example. But they knew how to strike a balance.
....and this is a flaw with Linus's idea. It makes it harder for mortals to build software. Fine of your team is all C experts, otherwise not a route to reliable software.
> If you are "breathing" you are only "breathing".

And sitting, and your heart is beating, and you're swallowing, and your eyes are moving reflexively, and you're probably digesting. And what about people with tinnitis? They're often "hearing" something.

Sorry, I just don't understand why focusing on a specific topic to the exclusion of everything else is somehow inferior to focusing on breathing. Because your higher functioning mind can take over your breathing, but your reflexive breathing is plenty good at it nearly all the time. Woudln't the same distraction-free mindset be attainable by contemplating the central limit theorem, or Euler's formula, or focusing on doing more situps than your body is comfortable with?
I use this technique a long time and it seems to beat all bots (a medium website, about 100k unique visitors per day). It's easy, unobtrusive and just works :)
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wow you really like macs
I just want to see a 2d plot. Sugar vs pH for all the drinks.
Not California, but if you find yourself in Denver/Boulder I'd love to show you around:)
I agree with almost all of this save the part about the gender balance eventually evening out.

I don't know that there ever will be parity and I don't know that that is a problem.

Proportional representation is not always desirable or natural. Different groups do things in different proportions. Such is true of men and women; in aggregate, they do things in different amounts. This is not de facto evidence of insidious discrimination; we don't seem to assume so in the case of men not being in female-dominated industries like education.

Ultimately the lack of proportional representation is mostly the result of real differences between men and women. To try to create proportional representation would either demand hiring tokens or heavy duty social engineering to reduce gender differences. I don't like either option.
Very, very cool startup.

For us non-technical folk, you might wish to add a section to your how-to explaining how Kera.io would interact with proprietary data; for example, if our app happens to be financial, would you be able to see any of it? Or is the script hosted on our end?

(This may be obvious to a dev, but not to me, and therefore caused me to send this to our devs to ask)
I don't get it. What type of mockups are you referring to? Images? HTML? The mention of server side language is confusing me because I don't know why I'd be calling something a mockup if it had logic behind it, nor why I wouldn't be showing my client the app on a URL or doing a screencast.
Which is funny because that is the reason people choose Java and ML over C: to let the compiler do the optimization. But that doesn't always work.
Forgive me, tarr11, but how do you know that culture was added later?
That sounds like something I don't want to be eating either, if it's so toxic to both bacteria and fairly similar mammals. Have there been any long term xylitol studies? It seems likely that it would screw with the bacteria in one's gut.
Ha, my daughter asked the same question, so I tried explaining all 4 rules, but she didn't seem to be very impressed. So I quickly googled, found this http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/ among the top result, and we went through all 4 rules, experimenting. That was a lot more interesting, especially when she found out about the 'objects'... :) So the page is bookmarked now :)
Render the gradients into a resizable UIImage via CG. That differs from approach #2 in the article, which does the same thing, but generates a non-resizable UIImage.

To make a resizable image at runtime, draw into an image as described in approach #2, but make the image have width of left cap + 1 point + right cap, then use -[UIImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:] to generate a wrapper with the correct resizing behavior.

Then: make sure that if you have 100 buttons on-screen which all use the same gradients, you end up reusing the same generated UIImage. You don't want to redraw the same thing for each of them.
Rich Hickey talks codeq
The 20 inch tablet
He explicitly said to put media on a NAS disk.
Man, I was already embarrassed to write about it. I only do that inside walls of course. Outside I'm a perfectly normal alien.
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I too have read several of Thich Nhat Hann's books. I don't even know how many times I have referenced the washing dishes story. I do feel that it has added value to my life. I wonder if a statistically significant number of folks here on HN have read his books.